Raul Rodriguez had worked for U.S. Customs for 18 years when internal investigators confronted him last year with a document he had never seen before: His Mexican birth certificate. Rodriguez, 51, a customs officer in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, felt the blood drain from his face. AdvertisementTexas officials have made it more difficult to obtain birth certificates and flagged hundreds as suspicious — 246 since the start of this year alone. Citizenship and Immigration Services noticed Rodriguez after he provided his birth certificate to help his brother in Mexico apply for a U.S. passport. When investigators asked about the Mexican birth certificate, the older man initially refused to answer, Rodriguez said.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 01:30 UTC